iOS 6: what is on your wish list?

In less than 12 hours, Apple will introduce the latest and greatest version of its mobile platform – iOS 6. Nobody can tell for sure what new features it will add, but it is beleived that a new Maps application will make an entry. System-wide Facebook integration may also be on the list, along with a slightly redesigned interface (read: a different theme color) and various software tweaks here and there.

Speculation aside, what do you want to see in iOS 6? What are the features you absolutely want the new platform version to have, regardless of whether they are rumored to come or not? This is the topic for discussion we have for you today, and the comment section below is where you can present us with your suggestions.

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The whole startup process should have the Imperial March playing in the background. Then a video message should play featuring Tim Cook calling every new iPhone owners to action to go out and prosletize to the world about features iOS 6 has that other phones have already, with heavy emphasis on buzz words. Then the iPhone should turn into a face hugger and inject the owner with nanoseeda which will transform him or her into the Walking Braindead, the iDrone... The perfect soldier.

Isn't android using a grid of apps just with battery draining widgets that contain useless information? Yea sure i want widgets on ios as a option but I would hardly use them. I just fail too see how you seem to infer that ios is incomplete because of a lack of customisation. Which really makes it more complete in a way because in android the user is left to complete the ui whereas apple did what they thought was best and in all honesty they probably do a better job then the user would. You could also view all uis as incomplete just based on thr fact they are changing and are never truly finished.

And your mom is going to make you Raisin Bran for breakfast every morning because she "Thought" it would be best for you.... Mean while, big boy Andy who can make his own decisions is across the street with a wide selection of delicious cereals to eat ranging from Lucky Charms to Frosted Flakes. Tell me again who does it better?

What if "Big Boy Andy" was OCD? By the time Big Boy Andy finally made up his mind as to what to eat, the little mommy-fed boy across the street finished up college, and move to Cupertino, California to be the CEO of Apple.

I think you already know that wasn't a dig at iOS and if I wanted to slam the iPhone, I could do a whole lot better than asking for a more robust UI. No matter how you look at it, iOS in its current state IS just an app launcher with a really smooth transition effect...that's it! One size doesn't alway fit all, and the only thing stopping some people from buying an iPhone is that same old boing grid that the iPhone has had for the last five years.

Oh, and Android users aren't left to do anything themselves. Every Android phones comes with apps preloaded to homescreens out of the box. But the OS allows us to change it as WE see fit. Customization is apparently a dirty word to ios users, but some people actually like it.

-first of all you seem to think I thought you were slamming ios which is not the case. However you toke a common jab it calling it a mere "app launcher." This is were I take grief because that all an os is anyways. A portal to varying functions. Android disguises it sure by letting you change that portal or gives you information right off the bat via widgets but at its core that all an os is a portal but that in itself doesn't make it boring or incomplete. If your idea of exciting is widgets by avoiding the painful task of 1 click on a screen then we make a psychosocial difference here.

- Second I'm not really arguing the merits of customization as the really depends on the type of person you are all I'm just talking about the views of the os itself.

I thought i felt a little heat from your reply, but if I interpreted it wrong, I apologize.

Here's the thing, the app launcher thing kinda fits. Maybe it seems like a jab and even used as a jab by most people, but that what iOS looks like to many Android users. When we hit the "app launcher" on our phones, it looks like a grid full of apps. Apple even used the Samsung app launcher in it demo to show how they copied iOS. I think that makes the comparison pretty much accurate. Looking at a boring 4x4 grid where I can't even see my wallpaper IS boring to me, but if you don't mind...cool!

And the widget thing isn't about avoiding "1 click", it's about avoiding the swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe... (Where the hell is it?!) Swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe... (Screw it!) ... Home button, home button, search... Typing in the name of the app you're looking for ... Then 1 click. The OS is solid, I don't care what anyone else says. But it needs a little customization IMHO.

Exactly bio phone android has the same grid except widgets. And what's a widget but an app that displays information. Exact same concept. It's hilarious when android fans think their UI is somehow more complicated.

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